[fxruby-users] Monitoring events/messages

[Lyle Johnson]

On Jan 18, 2009, at 1:20 PM, David MacMahon wrote:

> I am trying to learn FXRuby (and Fox).  I already know Ruby pretty  
> well.  One thing that would help my understanding of FXRuby (and  
> Fox) is to be able to monitor (i.e. spy) on events that are sent to  
> a particular widget, class of widgets, or every widget.

You can try setting the target for a particular widget to an  
FXDebugTarget instance. It should then print to the console all of the  
messages that that widget receives, e.g.

	button = FXButton.new(...)
	debug_target = FXDebugTarget.new
	button.target = debug_target

Hope this helps,

Lyle